Mansur Quotes

#1. And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling

Michelle Kwan

#2. God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#3. He said only two words. But they explained everything he was doing, and everything he intended to do. You're mine.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Charles Polanyi

#5. Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#6. He acts without contact,instructs without meeting,guides without pointing.Desires do not conflict with Him,thoughts do not mingle with Him:His essence is without qualification (takyeef),His action without effort (takleef).

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#7. I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

Alexandra Kollontai

#8. O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#9. Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

Chris Van Allsburg

#10. I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#11. Guards, meanwhile, had to resist the

Mansur Abdulin

#12. There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God,

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#13. Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition.He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#14. God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#15. Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#16. I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake.

Kimberly Schlapman

#17. God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#18. The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#19. I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#20. If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

Robert C. Martin

#21. I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart,And I said: Truly there is no doubt that it is You.It is You that I see in everything;And I do not see You through anything (but You).

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#22. What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#23. God has plans - not problems - for our lives.

Corrie Ten Boom

#24. As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

John Raleigh Mott